therapy

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  1. noun Treatment of illness or disability.
  2. noun Psychotherapy.
  3. noun Healing power or quality: the therapy of fresh air and sun.

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  • Yet. The reason she starts to speak with Evan is because part of her therapy is a list of apologies for past crimes, and she wants to trade apology for information. —  FSF,May2004
  • Platelet-Rich Plasma therapy is a non - surgical mode of treatment wherein a ... —  Medindia Health News
  • Regeneron plans to sharply reduce that price if the therapy is approved to treat gout. —  FierceBiotech
  • Well, it got better, seeing as 2008 was the best year of my life for a change ... by the way, anyone who is fighting depression -- therapy * works*.
  • And although there was no overall increase in MI risk for women ages 51 to 69 who used hormone therapy compared with women who did not use, the therapy was associated with a 24\% increase in risk of MI for women ages 51 to 54, they wrote. —  MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. New Latin therapia, from Greek therapeia, from therapeuein, to treat medically; see therapeutic.

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  1. = French thérapie, from Greek θεραπεία, a waiting on, service, from θεραπεύειν, serve, attend: see therapeutic.
 

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